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4TB drives coming out....
will these be compatible with my NVX Pioneer edition? I'm almost out of space on my 4 x 2TB drives... and going to 3TB drives really isn't worth it.... anyone know? Thx!
HCL - "hardware compatibility list" http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641
swamp2 wrote:
StephenB wrote: Shifting off the HCL can/will create issues getting support later - just something to keep in mind.
Sorry no idea what you mean here.
Note the warning: Be sure to use only drives recommended in the compatibility list, otherwise, NETGEAR Technical Support can and will deny support.
StephenB wrote: You can hot-swap them, though the usual expansion limits apply (no more than 8 TiB growth over the live of the volume, cannot expand over 16 TiB).
So if I began with 2 1TB drives I would max out with 10 TB using 16TB of drives?
Thanks![/quote]You seem to be mixing up the two constraints.
If you begin with 2x1TB, you start with a volume size of 1 TB. You can expand that to about 9 TB.
The 16 TiB ceiling is separate. If you start with 5x4TB, you'd have a 16 TB volume size with RAID-5/xraid single redundancy. You can't expand it any more.
These limits apply to 4.2.x systems and 5.3.x systems - they don't apply to the new OS6 products.
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